Mary Lou Retton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
-
Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
-
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
-
I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
-
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
-
I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
-
The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
-
Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
-
The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
-
'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
-
I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
-
Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
-
Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
-
Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
-
I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
-
I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
-
When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
-
There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
-
Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up.
-
I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.
-
People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed.
-
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
-
Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
